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    7 Smart Home gift ideas that go beyond the usual Google/Amazon smart speakers – TechCrunch

    Welcome to Techcrunch’s 2020 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? We’re here to help! We’ll be rolling out gift guides from now...

    Remote-controlled delivery carts are now working for the local Los Angeles grocer – TechCrunch

    Robots are no longer the high-tech tools reserved for university labs, e-commerce giants and buzzy Silicon Valley startups. The local grocer now has access...

    As IBM shifts to hybrid cloud, reports have them laying off 10,000 in EU – TechCrunch

    As IBM makes a broad shift in strategy, Bloomberg reported this morning that the company would be cutting around 10,000 jobs in Europe. This...

    France starts collecting tax on tech giants – TechCrunch

    France is going forward with its plan to tax big tech companies. The government has sent out notices to tech giants, as reported by...

    What will tomorrow’s tech look like? Ask someone who can’t see – TechCrunch

    When I was pronounced legally blind in 2009, I didn’t know one other person who called themselves blind – least of all “low vision”...

    Insurtech’s big year gets bigger as Metromile looks to go public – TechCrunch

    What can we decipher from the latest wave of dollars crashing into the insurance technology market? In the wake of insurtech unicorn Root’s IPO, it...

    Amazon Web Services outage takes a portion of the internet down with it – TechCrunch

    Amazon Web Services is currently having an outage, taking a chunk of the internet down with it. Several AWS services were experiencing problems as...

    Amazon Produce Reviews: What Do They Mean?

    The company seems to have found the category challenging. Mr. Khalifah of Fakespot pointed to a peculiarity that he has noticed in many produce...

    We’re Still Smarter Than Computers

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. We will be off for the...

    Slack’s stock climbs on possible Salesforce acquisition – TechCrunch

    News that Salesforce is interested in buying Slack, the popular workplace chat company, sent shares of the smaller firm sharply higher today. Slack ...

    Instead of Yule log, watch this interactive dumpster fire because 2020 – TechCrunch

    The holiday seasons is upon us and with that comes stress, anxiety, and the airing of grievances. And this year is worse. Instead of...

    Join us for a live Q&A with Sapphire’s Jai Das on Tuesday at 2 pm ET/11 am PT – TechCrunch

    Sure, we’re heading into a holiday weekend here in America, but that doesn’t mean that the good ship TechCrunch is going to slow down....

    Cast.ai nabs $7.7M seed to remove barriers between public clouds – TechCrunch

    When you launch an application in the public cloud, you usually put everything on one provider, but what if you could choose the components...

    Europe sets out the rules of the road for its data reuse plan – TechCrunch

    European Union lawmakers have laid out a major legislative proposal today to encourage the reuse of industrial data across the Single Market by creating...

    It’s Time for a Digital Detox. (You Know You Need It.)

    When is enough enough?Even though the presidential election is over, we’re still doomscrolling through gloomy news about the coronavirus surge. The rest of your...

    Amazon expands IP Accelerator to Europe after US SMBs register 6,000 trademarks – TechCrunch

    As we head into the biggest shopping period of the year — which this year may well have an even stronger online component than...